Cox Automotive’s logistics brand, Central Dispatch, has launched its carrier scorecard, a new feature designed to help shippers make smarter, safer shipping decisions by providing critical carrier data at the point of dispatch. While noting it independently verifies each carrier that joins the platform, Central Dispatch said the new scorecard gives shippers another tools to […] [Read More]

Fraud is on the rise. In fact, the beginning of 2025 saw a sharp spike in stolen vehicle incidents across all major load boards. This surge exposed critical vulnerabilities in the industry’s ability to detect and prevent fraudulent carrier behavior before it led to financial and reputational damage. In the worst-case scenario, a fraudulent carrier […] [Read More]

While announcing that Cars.com’s Accu-Trade used-car appraisal tool surpassed 1 million quarterly appraisals, CEO Alex Vetter said Accu-Trade and the Cars.com digital wholesale auction platform, DealerClub, are increasing in number of users. That is happening as dealers move to “tech-first products that advance the industry’s long-term goal of improving profitability,” Vetter said in the company’s […] [Read More]

Black Book didn’t need an entire word to describe the most significant element impacting the wholesale market last week. Analysts did it with a single letter: K. The newest Market Insights highlighted that wholesale prices dropped 1.21% last week, prompting Black Book to say accelerated depreciation is “signaling a market under mounting pressure as the […] [Read More]

Wholesale vehicle sales lost a touch of momentum in October as the growth rate slowed. But sales are still entering the final turn of 2025 on a high note. According to AuctionNet data from the National Auto Auction Association, there have been 6 million vehicles sold at auction through 10 months, which beats year-ago figures […] [Read More]

The wholesale market turned the calendar to November on Saturday, and wholesale values are cooling similarly to the deep autumn temperatures. Black Book reported that overall wholesale prices decreased by 1.04% last week, with vehicles less than 2 years old dropping slightly more, sliding by 1.07%. The newest installment of Market Insights also mentioned last […] [Read More]

RPM has hired Mario Paluzzi as chief product and strategy officer, an addition the non-asset-based vehicle and freight logistics provider called a cornerstone of its technology-based vision and a sign of its “focused drive” to unify its product strategy and scale its digital platform. Paluzzi’s resume includes 15 years of executive leadership in product management, […] [Read More]